From de281fe317e9ab886695a08b5d04e976325c7283 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.analyst@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:39:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #17252: Fix bug where matplotlib.style('default')
 resets the backend

---
 lib/matplotlib/style/core.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/style/core.py b/lib/matplotlib/style/core.py
index 577c9f51e7a5..27763d370fd2 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/style/core.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/style/core.py
@@ -43,14 +43,14 @@
 
 def _remove_blacklisted_style_params(d, warn=True):
     o = {}
-    for key, val in d.items():
+    for key in d:  # prevent triggering RcParams.__getitem__('backend')
         if key in STYLE_BLACKLIST:
             if warn:
                 cbook._warn_external(
                     "Style includes a parameter, '{0}', that is not related "
                     "to style.  Ignoring".format(key))
         else:
-            o[key] = val
+            o[key] = d[key]
     return o